Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
SRI AUROBINDOIf India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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